Types of Government
In this type of government, the people are meant to have power and influence in government.
What is democracy?
What is Athens?
This is the name of a series of wars fought in England between the King and the Parliament
What are the English Civil Wars?
This is the name for an intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries in-which philosophers attempted to use logic and reason to think about government and other aspects of life.
What is the Enlightenment?
What is a Republic?
In this ancient civilization based along the Mediterranean Sea, they had a Republic.
This is the document that the king was forced to sign by nobles in 1215.
What was the Magna Carta?
What is rationalism?
What is a direct democracy?
This is the name of the man who became dictator for life in the Roman Republic and played a huge role in ending Roman democracy for good.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This is the name of the document that permanently created Constitutional Monarchy in England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This enlightenment philosopher importantly decided that reason was the best way to describe government, but used his logic to justify brutal monarchy and a complete end of freedom to protect people from their wicked nature.
Explain the process for how **and why** democracy ended in Ancient Athens. (no need to ask as a question)
The name for the event being described is the Glorious Revolution. (explain what happened)
What is the name of the event in-which the parliament kicked out King James II and invited his daughter Mary and her husband William to be the new king and queen, but forced them to sign the English Bill of Rights, permanently limiting their power?
This first philosopher thought that government's purpose was to defend our natural rights, while the second one on the list believed that government should be as limited as possible and that civilization itself had degraded humanity.
Who was John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau?
Explain the difference between oligarchy and aristocracy. (no need to ask as a question)
Oligarchy can be any rich elites that are in charge, but aristocracy have to be some special elite (usually like nobility or something like that)
Compare and contrast the democracy or Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Give at least 2 differences and 2 similarities
Some answers:
Differences: Ancient Greece was a direct Democracy, Rome was a Republic. Ancient Greece only had democracy in Athens, Ancient Rome had their Republic expand. Democracy in Athens ended by being conquered, while the Roman Republic came apart itself.
Similarities: both democracies only allowed males who were not enslaved to vote. Both democracies involved some level of participation from the people. Both democracies were unable to pass the test of time.
Explain the main differences and similarities between the English Civil Wars and the Glorious Revolution? (at least 2 differences and 2 similarities)
Differences: The Glorious Revolution was mostly bloodless, unlike the English Civil Wars. The English Civil Wars eventually resulted in the restoration of the monarchy and came full circle, whereas the Glorious Revolution permanently ended Absolute Monarchy in England and started Constitutional Monarchy. The Glorious Revolution was not really a war, and was more of parliament switching the leader in power.
(no need to ask as a question)
Explain what is meant by "Social Contract Theory" and describe how Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau differed on their interpretation of this theory, even though Hobbes created it.
Hobbes believed we created governments as an agreement (a Social Contract), in which we gave them virtually all of our freedom and in exchange they protected us from ourselves.
Locke agreed that we created governments and that our society was like a Social Contract between us and the government, but differed from Hobbes because he thought that the government was meant to defend our freedom and natural rights, not take it away.
Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that we were meant to be in a Social Contract with eachother to develop total freedom. We were supposed to be beholden to our communities, not the government.